Breathing
呼吸

From a single line, space begins to emerge—linework starts to breathe in the air.

Breathing takes drawn lines as its core visual language, using Taiwanese makino bamboo and brass wires to form an irregular circular structure suspended in space. These lines resemble unfinished sketches or fragments of a musical score, intersecting and pulling across the air as they respond to the invisible rhythms and currents between the viewer and the work.

The installation incorporates leftover teaching papers and brass sheets from the late artist Lii Jiin Shiow—the papers functioning as fragments of memory, while the brass introduces a flowing visual tempo under shifting light. The overall structure echoes the musical, manuscript-like lines found in -Jo Hsieh’s drawings, weaving a “silent music” through the interplay of fibrous textures and metallic sheen.

Breathing ultimately unfolds as a spatial script in continuous motion. Through looking, moving, and sensing, viewers encounter the subtle resonance that arises between vision, air, and the rhythms of their own bodies.